# disjoint
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English disjoynen, from Old French desjoindre (“disjoin”), from Latin disiungō, from dis- + iungō (“join”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɪsˈd͡ʒɔɪnt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔɪnt

### Adjective

disjoint (comparative more disjoint, superlative most disjoint)
* Not smooth or continuous; disjointed.
** 1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 109:Azure, a chevron disjoint or broken in the head or - BROKMALE. Per fesse gules and sable , a chevron rompu counterchanged - ALLEN, Sheriff of London
* (set theory, not comparable) Of two or more sets, having no members in common; having an intersection equal to the empty set.

#### Antonyms

* non-disjoint
* overlapping

#### Derived terms

* disjointly
* disjointness
* disjoint set
* disjoint union
* disjoint union topology
* disjointure
* nondisjoint
* pairwise disjoint

#### Related terms

* disjunct
* conjoint

#### Translations
### Verb

disjoint (third-person singular simple present disjoints, present participle disjointing, simple past and past participle disjointed)
* To render disjoint; to remove a connection, linkage, or intersection.
    Synonym: disarticulate
    Antonyms: rejoint, rearticulate
    Near-synonyms: unjoin; disassemble, take apart
    to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint poultry by carving
** 1719, Matthew Prior, “Henry and Emma”, in Poems on Several Occasions, Dublin: J. Hyde, page 163:Are there not Poiſons, Racks, and Flames, and Swords; / That Emma thus muſt die by Henry’s Words? / Yet what could Swords or Poiſon, Racks or Flame, / But mangle and disjoint this brittle Frame? / More fatal Henry’s Words; they murder Emma’s Fame.
** 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Tales of a Wayside Inn”, in The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, London: George Routledge and Sons, published 1872, page 543:As over some half-ruined wall, / Disjointed and about to fall, / Fresh woodbines climb and interlace, / And keep the loosened stones in place.
* To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent.
    a disjointed speech
* (obsolete) To fall into pieces.
** c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 140, column 2:But let the frame of things dis-ioynt, / Both the Worlds ſuffer, / Ere we will eate our Meale in feare, and ſleepe / In the affliction of theſe terrible Dreames, / That ſhake vs Nightly : Better be with the dead, / Whom we, to gayne our peace, haue ſent to peace, / Then on the torture of the Minde to lye / In reſtleſſe extaſie.

#### Related terms

* unjointed

#### See also

* disjoin

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dis.ʒwɛ̃/
* Audio (Canada):(file)

### Participle

disjoint (feminine disjointe, masculine plural disjoints, feminine plural disjointes)
* past participle of disjoindre

### Adjective

disjoint (feminine disjointe, masculine plural disjoints, feminine plural disjointes)
* disjoint, unattached

### Further reading

* “disjoint”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.